The English ConstitutionA classic study of the British constitution, paying special attention to how Parliament and the monarchy work. The author frequently draws comparisons with the American Constitution, being generally critical of the American system of government. |
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... ideas , but by facts ; not by things palpable , but by things impalpable . Not to put too fine a point upon it , they were influenced by rank and wealth . No doubt the better sort of them believed that those who were superior to them in ...
... ideas , but by facts ; not by things palpable , but by things impalpable . Not to put too fine a point upon it , they were influenced by rank and wealth . No doubt the better sort of them believed that those who were superior to them in ...
Page xii
... ideas ; or rather - for the conceptions of such people are more personal than abstract - between two opposing parties , each professing a creed of such ideas . But they could do no more . Their own notions , if they had been cross ...
... ideas ; or rather - for the conceptions of such people are more personal than abstract - between two opposing parties , each professing a creed of such ideas . But they could do no more . Their own notions , if they had been cross ...
Page xiii
... idea that it will be altered entirely and altered for the better . I cannot expect that the new class of voters will be at all more able to form sound opinions on complex questions than the old voters . There was indeed an idea - a very ...
... idea that it will be altered entirely and altered for the better . I cannot expect that the new class of voters will be at all more able to form sound opinions on complex questions than the old voters . There was indeed an idea - a very ...
Page xxi
... idea to the working - classes if refused . But in all cases it must be remembered that a political combination of the lower classes , as such and for their own objects , is an evil of the first magnitude ; that a permanent combination ...
... idea to the working - classes if refused . But in all cases it must be remembered that a political combination of the lower classes , as such and for their own objects , is an evil of the first magnitude ; that a permanent combination ...
Page liv
... idea only the Emperor's agent ; and even had it been otherwise , M. Rouher , the one great man of Imperialism , could not have been selected as a head of the Government , at a momeut of the greatest reaction against the Empire . Of the ...
... idea only the Emperor's agent ; and even had it been otherwise , M. Rouher , the one great man of Imperialism , could not have been selected as a head of the Government , at a momeut of the greatest reaction against the Empire . Of the ...
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